Nov 25, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook
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HCT 101: Health Care Technician I


Credits: 4

Teaches basic care skills with emphasis on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients. Covers procedures, communications and interpersonal relations; observation, charting and reporting; care planning, safety and infection control; anatomy and physiology, nutrition and patient feeding; ethics, death and dying. Prepares multi-skilled health care workers to care for patients of various ages with special emphasis on geriatric nursing, home health, long and short term care facilities.

Prerequisite(s): Direct placement into ENG 111  with or without corequisite support and MDE 10  or higher.
Co-requisite(s) HCT 102 .
Lecture Hours: 4 hours per week



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